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Evening Post, Volume LV, Issue 102, 2 May 1898, Page 6

The Premier leaves for Masterton to-mor-row morning. In the evening he will address a Liberal gathering in that town. On the following day he will visit EketaInina, and on liis way- back to "Wellington he will attend a meeting of natives at Papawai, to discuss the native land proposals of the Government. Four persons filed their petitions in bankruptcy in Wellington during the month of April — an architect, a surveyor, a cycle dealer, and a builder. An English parcel post m.ail came to hand by the Gothic yesterday afternoon. The Police Commissioners left Christchurch for the West Coast this morning. After taking evidence, at Hokitika, Greynioutb, and Nelson they Mill visit the chief centres in the North Island. Further evidence will be taken in Wellington on their return from Auckland. The world of entomological science sustains severe loss in the death of Mr. W. M. Maskell, Registrar of Ihe New Zealand University, announced in another column. Hit fame as being the highest authority on insect blights, on which lie published voluminous works, is world-wide. An instance of his admitted pre-eminence on this subject occurred a year or two ago in connection with the inroads made upon the plantations of cinchona (Peruvian bark, which yields quinine) at Sikkim. in India, by a blight which was unknown in Pern, the original habitat of the plant. As the cultivations were of great value to India, and were threatened with destruction, the Government sought advice from fi«ientists, and was referred to Mr. Mnskell as the leading authority on such matters. After investigation, Mr. Maskell was able to say that the insect was similar to a blight which infested the camellia in Japan, aud he prescribed a means of keeping the pest under control, which has been applied with success. At the Hntt Golf Links on Saturday, Mr. A. Duncan won the club's medal and championship, also the St. Andrew's Cross, which was played for on the same round. His score for the 18 holes was 85— a splendid one, one more stroke than the record for the links, put np by Mr. W, Pryde. Mr. Pryde's score on Saturday was 89. A girl six years of age, daughter of Mr. Butler, licensee of the Provincial Hotel, Upper Hntt, was run over by a horse in that, township last week, aud had her leg broken. A great deal of time was taken up in the Magistrate's Court tills morning in investigating a charge against a man named Arthur Smith of having viilfullv obstructed the footpath in Willis-street. Mr. Wilford appeared for the defendant. Numerous witnesses were called, and eventually the case was dismissed, the Magistrate (Mr. Haselden) being satisfied that Smith was not the sort of person the law was aiming against. John M'Kiuuon was fined 20s and costs for wilfully damaging a lock and key, the property of Norah O'Brien, aud ordered to pay the amount of the damage, 4s. Several cases dealing with the refusal of husbands to comply with maintenance orders were disposed of, most of the defendants having at the last moment paid deposits. Messrs. St. John and Hayman, theatrical managers, were s^ued in the Magistrate's Court this morning by Joseph Churches, hotelkeeper, of Hokitika, for £11 4s Bd, being the amount of a cheque drawn by defendants and dishonoured. Mr. Myers appeared for the plaintiff. -From evidence given by Mr. St. John it appeared that his company had had bad luck -iv being unable to ptay at Westport, where they had a £25 guarantee, on the strength of which the cheque had been given. The whole of the company's debts in the country did not amount to £20. Of the £80 taken during the last season in Wellington, all had gone in payment of debts, aud the defendants were left with what they stood in, so it would be of no use to take out a judgment summons and get immediate execution. The company had already paid the value of the passage money to take the members back to Sydney, and they wei-e all leaving to-day. "Witness had an account with the Nelson Branch of the Union Bank, and still had a credit balance there— viz., 4s 6d. The company had two scenes, not worth ss, and no effects or wardrobe. As Mr. Myers did not wish to press the claim, there being nothing to gain by so doing, his Worship simply entered up judgment for the amount claimed. Mr. E. 11. Lough, of the New Zealand Electrical Syndicate, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Secretaries, London, and is understood to be the first New Zealand-born candidate to gain the distinction. The Institute was founded in London in 1891, and its members are required to have a full knowledge of the law and practice relating to companies and. to pass examinations in order to become Fellows and Associates. A suggestion having recently been thrown out by the Frozen Meat Trade Association of London that similar Associations should be formed in this colony, and Christchuroh people interested in the subject having already taken steps to form an Association, the Wellington Chamber of Commerce is now issuing circulars having the mime object iv view